Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.